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Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 10:40pm On Mar 02, 2015 |
Shawbabe: Make an appointment online after printing out the consent form and go to the U.S embassy and get it notarized for a fee of $50. Go with international passport for identification purposes. They will not accept any notary outside the embassy oh for obvious reasons. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 10:34pm On Mar 02, 2015 |
customised87: You are absolutely correct with a slight variation though. The state agencies have no jurisdiction when it comes to passport matters/ issuance. The state department a federal govt agency is solely responsible and only nortary from the U.S embassy in Nigeria is acceptable for a fee of $50 of course. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 9:27pm On Mar 02, 2015 |
nefertitiram:Lwkmd...that's a lifetime oh 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 9:06pm On Mar 02, 2015 |
Kayyhe: I want to believe that you are doing this primarily to secure your child's future. You can only ever benefit after your baby turns 21 and is able to financially sponsor you for legal residence. You absolutely DO NOT become a citizen automatically. You still have to meet the residency requirements for 5years before you can apply for U.S citizenship. One of those requirements entails not spending more than 6months outside the U.S or your residency will be considered abandoned and your green card revoked. It's like a lady who once tried to go through the U.S citizens line at POE (because she had a U.S citizen baby) and she was told to get back to the visitors line because your child's citizenship doesn't give you derivative status until he/she petitions for you. 1 Like 1 Share |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 8:57am On Feb 27, 2015 |
TeesMom:Your nanny cannot be granted a visa to offer her services in the U.S for obvious reasons on a visitors visa since she will be considered employed. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 8:18am On Feb 27, 2015 |
drafrican:Every doctor or nurse has liability insurance. People loose their license in the US for any malpractice and it gets published. I am not sure the same applies in Nigeria drafrican. Are there court records we can go through in Nigeria to see the horrific blunders committed by medical personnel? I can only imagine how many have died or been turned away from emergency rooms because they had no money. There is absolutely no basis for comparison when it comes to healthcare facilities or ethics between the two countries. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 2:00pm On Feb 26, 2015 |
slimwendy85:The ETA is for countries whose citizens do not require visas to the United states . As long as they have not previously overstayed on any previous visit. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 1:55pm On Feb 26, 2015 |
woaini: Expect to receive a personalized response to your inquiry. That's the one you print out. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 3:00am On Feb 25, 2015 |
[quote author=Vineb post=31041405] I totally agree with those that feel appointment with Dr Fagbohun is like a business appointment. A friend said it felt like a drive through clinic kind of setup. He has too many patients and it surely impacts on the amount of time he spends with his patients she thinks. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:11am On Feb 21, 2015 |
fruitfull1:Thanks oh. She was successfully delivered of a bouncing baby boy through CS. Wishing you successful POE experience. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:10am On Feb 21, 2015 |
bj2012golf:Congrats bj2012golf. May God be praised! 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:07am On Feb 21, 2015 |
malory84: Yes. Without the birthday certificate there is no processing of passport or visa for your baby. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 7:17pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
This was crucial for me eh..
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Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:52pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
tbaby2015:They have insurance. So, they just paid doctors fee $1864 +$120 circumcision fee. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:45pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
Triax: I had raised an alarm days ago that this was going to happen. It may only get worse until CBN recinds it's decision. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 2:50pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
Anybody in Methodist Sugarland? My friend is on admission. She is due to deliver today or tomorrow with Dr Zee. Please help me put her in you prayers guys. Wishing all the mothers to be safe delivery. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 2:42pm On Feb 20, 2015 |
pepeflavor: To be on the safe side go to Texas first which is your scheduled POE. You can then go to anywhere else thereafter just to avoid unnecessary interrogation. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:25pm On Feb 19, 2015 |
pepeflavor: I would suggest you stick to Texas as POE first. You can always travel anywhere in the United States afterwards. Do not give them reason to try to read meaning into why you are going somewhere else. Just keep it clean and simple.My 2cents. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:12am On Feb 19, 2015 |
customised87: I hope the consent letter from Nigeria was procured from the U.S embassy in Nigeria (because you claim to have gotten it without any ID). Anything else will be rejected. All you need is your own passport and notarized consent from your spouse if I understand your question correctly. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 10:18pm On Feb 18, 2015 |
NEWs: CBN closes RDAS/WDAS FX window. All demand for FX should be channelled via the interbank FX market. Interpretation : Naira has been "tactically" devalued to =N=198/$. http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/cbn-suspends-rdas-wdas-forex-windows/202131/ If you can buy your dollars TODAY please do so. 3 Likes |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 1:04am On Feb 17, 2015 |
Lorlahbee:Then pm your smuggling ways to whoever you want. Don't put it on public display if you don't want anyone to comment. You can be abusive all you want it will not stop me from speaking truth to power. Stop breaking the immigration laws of a sovereign country. 12 Likes |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 12:49am On Feb 17, 2015 |
justwise: The Joy Of Being Detained By U.S. Customs and Border Protection After a really fun day yesterday in Waterloo at Communitech, which is really impressive, I woke up at 4:30am to make my 6:30am flight from Toronto to Chicago on my way to Little Rock, Arkansas where I’m speaking at the launch of Startup Arkansas. I was going to run the Little Rock Marathon on Sunday but I’m undertrained and – while I could get it done – decided I wasn’t ready to deal with the physical and emotional recovery cycle given all the work I’ve got going on. So I bailed on the marathon, but since they’d organized the Startup Arkansas event around my schedule and managed to procure me a number for the sold out marathon, I decided to go ahead and fulfill my commitment to that. At 5:30am after checking in and getting my boarding pass, I slammed into the wall of US CBP. I’ve been through the Toronto checkpoint a few times and it’s always a long line that moves slowly. I got to the front by 5:45am so I felt like I had plenty of time to make my 6:30am flight. As I waited for my turn, I noticed the CBP agent whose line I was in was moving slowly. The guy two people in front of me took about three minutes to clear – he had to take off his hat, then his glasses, and had to do some fingerprint thing on the scanner that I can’t remember ever having seen used before. I didn’t really think much of it, but I noticed it. When it was my turn, I said a polite hello to the CBP agent, gave him my passport and customs form, and waited patiently. He handed me back my customs form and said “Put your correct address on this.” I looked down and noticed I had written my P.O. Box in Eldorado Springs as my address, since that’s my address. I responded “That’s my correct legal address.” He responded, “Do you live inside a P.O. Box?” I said, as politely as I could, “No.” He then said “Is your house inside your P.O. Box?” I said, “No, I have a house a mile away, but the P.O. Box is my address – at least that’s what the US Postal Service says.” By this point I realized he wanted a street address and not a P.O. Box, so I said “I’m sorry, I’ll write down the house address I have” which I proceeded to do. I stood there quietly for about a minute as he typed stuff into his computer. He then handed my passport and my customs form to me after scribbling something illegible on it, handed me a yellow card, pointed at a room, and said, “Go into that room.” I asked whether there was a problem and he said more forcefully, “Go into that room.” I did. It was a bigger room with about 10 CBP people. There were about 5 non-CBP people. No one acknowledged me as I walked into the room. I went up to one of the CBP people and said, “I was told to go to this room – can you tell me what I need to do?” He responded, “Give me your documents and go sit down over there until called.” This time I asked “Can you explain what’s going on?” The response was “Go sit over there until you are called.” At this point I got anxious. I went and sat down. I sent Amy and my assistant Kelly an email telling them where I was. I tweeted that I had been detained by CBP. I started looking up flight information on my iPhone and a different CBP agent barked at me, “Sir, you must turn off your cell phone in this room.” So I did. I looked at the clock. It was now 6:00am. I resigned myself that I was going to miss my 6:30am flight. At 6:15am I heard someone from the other end of the room call “Feld.” I got up, took my bags, and went to where that person was. He told me to put my bags down and stand in front of him. He proceeded to empty out my bags and go through them carefully. After he packed them back up, he typed a few things into the computer, asked me a few routine questions, including where I lived, which I answered more precisely this time with a house address, explained that the postal service wouldn’t come to deliver to my house, so I had a P.O. Box as the US Post Office that I used as my address. He stamped my forms, handed them back to me, and pointed at a door and said, “Go through there.” I had no idea whether things were about to get better or worse. I asked him politely, “Can you explain why you are detaining me.” He responded with “Because you are traveling to the US.” I said, “I was asking why you’ve detained me for 30 minutes. Specifically, what was the reason?” The CBP officer said, “Because you are traveling to the US – we don’t have to give you a reason.” I quietly picked up my stuff and went through the door he had pointed at. It led me back to the security area, in front of the long line to go through the xray machine, but behind the CBP checkpoint. So apparently I had now cleared customs, but still had to go through security. It was 6:25am at this point. No way I was going to make my flight. I took a deep breath, realized my heart rate was high (probably over 100), and I was extremely anxious. I went into mellow shut down mode as quickly as I could, just soldered through security, and got to my gate. At the point the normal absurdity of air travel took over and even though I was on a United / Air Canada codeshare, the gate agent for the flight I missed (Air Canada) wouldn’t help me, the United Global Services people couldn’t figure out how to change my ticket, and ultimately I wandered over the gate that I figured out with the United Global Services person was my replacement flight, where the gate agent there was very helpful and soothing for the first time this morning. I’m now in Chicago waiting for my flight to Little Rock. Given the flight times, I’ve got a lovely three hour wait, which I’m filling up with a long blog post to empty my head, all the phone calls that Kelly scrambled to reschedule, and some email time. I’ve been awake for 7 hours. I’ve managed to get from Toronto to Chicago. My heart rate is back to normal. I feel fine but the 45 minutes of CBP stress, which was minor compared to what I know a lot of people face, sits with me in a very bitter way. CNN is in the background with the talking heads blathering on about sequestration and all the problems it, and our government, are creating. And I remember that getting into Canada on Wednesday took me literally five minutes, was pleasant, and welcoming. What a shitty morning. 2 Likes |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 12:24am On Feb 17, 2015 |
Lorlahbee:Why put yourself and every other traveling Nigerian under even more scrutiny because of petty things like kilishi? Would it be worth hundreds of dollars in fine to you? 4 Likes |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 7:41am On Feb 16, 2015 |
supamom:Congratulations. We thank God for safe delivery...it is well. @Macorondo : Do not try to lie to US immigration officers ever because the repercussions are definitely not worth it. Tell the truth and let the chips fall were they may. Good luck |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 1:13am On Feb 16, 2015 |
shagaman: Very true. By road from Houston na 11hrs drive meanwhile na still part of Texas. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 4:55am On Feb 13, 2015 |
Please do not talk about dying because of some people's foolishness at POE. You should put all your time and effort to your unborn baby. America can go to hell with its visa. It's our corrupt politicians that continue to expose us to this insults and risk flying thousands of miles for good health care and blue kpali smh. It is well 7 Likes |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 4:21am On Feb 13, 2015 |
lalavita: Immigration lawyer for a non immigrant visa? I hope she doesn't end up wasting her hard earned money on a lawyer. I hope you did not implicate yourself when they were bombarding you with questions because I know for a fact that you must have been exhausted coupled with the fact that they type everything in those their amebo computers . Getting entry into the United States should never be taken for granted by us no matter how many times we may have had a successful POE. A friend experienced the same treatment a few days ago. She had her first child 2yrs ago and came back this year after a successful renewal. She was taken to secondary and grilled for 4hrs. He bags were searched,phone, emails ,call logs etc. she was stamped in for 3weeks! She had to return home because she is due in April and 3weeks wasn't going to cut it and the clown knew it.. I guess she is fortunate that hers wasn't cancelled. We just need grace at POE . The day such inhuman crap happens to me will be the last time i take my hard earned money back there. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 2:31am On Feb 08, 2015 |
baauh:Reverse the insurance and make plans to pay the bills. Your wife does not qualify for public assistance. You already told the embassy you paid. So, why do u keep asking the same questions? 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 1:17am On Feb 04, 2015 |
mannequin: Welcome my sister, We left Houston some days ago oh. |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 12:58am On Feb 04, 2015 |
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Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 5:18am On Feb 03, 2015 |
baauh: I will tell you one more time my brother.... If you indeed told the consular officer about paying $10k when you did not to get that visa...DO NOT USE IT. Tell your wife to send you a scanned copy of any document she has that will shade more light on this insurance matter. (she can snap a few pages and send through whatsapp)Anyone telling you to go ahead and travel with this visa doesn't realize the full implications. Use that ticket money towards paying down your child's hospital debt. If your wife decides to go the DS5525 route instead of providing the insurance documents then she will have to swear an affidavit stating the reason why your consent cannot be gotten. Do you even know the name of your baby? The hospital your wife delivered in etc? This is the time to begin digging yourself out of the mess and not get entangled in more mess. Do not travel with that visa! You will have many more opportunities to travel but in the meantime do this the right way. Do not burn the bridge for others intentionally. I will not say anymore on this topic. Back to preggy n poe gist Jare..My 4cents. 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Give Birth In USA: Cost And Procedure? by Amother4life: 3:41am On Feb 02, 2015 |
zeezahbee: Very inaccurate statement. No foreigner is entitled to "free "insurance in the United States. Please,do not encourage people to break the law. The lady you claim used insurance to pay off her bill...is she a resident or citizen? Was she paying a monthly premium on that insurance she used? I really hope it is not medicaid that your friend has used. In order to be eligible for Medicaid, individuals need to satisfy federal and state requirements regarding residency, immigration status, and documentation of U.S. citizenship. 5 Likes |
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